Alexa media player automation

Configuration
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Quick question. I have the following automation which gets triggered separately in homekit. The problem is that music doesn’t always start once the automation is triggered on the first try. I have to sometimes turn off the associated switch trigger and turn it back on several times. Is there a way for this automation to check whether music is playing after about 4-5 seconds, and if it’s not, run itself again?

- alias: Boys Bedtime Music On
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.boys_bedtime
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
  action:
  - service: media_player.volume_set
    data_template:
      entity_id: media_player.boys_echo
      volume_level: 0.5
  - service: media_player.play_media
    data_template:
      entity_id: media_player.boys_echo
      media_content_id: "Boys Bedtime playlist"
      media_content_type: AMAZON_MUSIC
2

You could write a second automation that gets triggered when you switch the homekit switch. Then check if its playing and if not, turn off and on the switch again. Repeat.

3

I didn’t explain the homekit thing. The “boys_bedtime” boolean is part of a homekit bedtime automation, which turns it on. That’s what triggers this automation.

What I’m looking for is some sort of a loop under “action” that keeps trying to play the playlist until it actually starts playing.

4

This loop is super easy to do in NodeRed… for YAML im not sure how to do it best.
Probably i would start by creating a script with the Amazon Echo Music playing, and call this from the automation. Then put a wait for timer to check if its playing and an IF function template to recall the script if the answer is false.